41.   Other NHL teams can sign the players to offer sheets, but then face forfeiting a series of draft picks as compensation.

42.   Rangers officials said it is the first time the team has signed a player to a multiyear deal before he was eligible for arbitration.

43.   Schieffer said that when a team signs a player to a significant contract, it has an impact on another part of the ballclub.

44.   Rogers said the team should have signed both.

45.   Several years ago, the team signed safety Tito Wooten to a long-term contract despite his history of abuse against women.

46.   Some Giants coaches are leaning toward giving that starting assignment to Marcus Buckley, whom the team signed to a three-year free agent contract this winter.

47.   Teams sign star players to long-term contracts, such as the Giants did with Matt Williams this year.

48.   Steve Patterson, president of the Houston team, said his team could sign as many as three more.

49.   Teams can sign players only to two short-term deals.

50.   Terms of the suspension prevent him from being paid even if another team signs him.